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India: The farmer's unhappy wives

AMRAVATI, India — Once a month Ujwala Karmejh pulls together her savings and splurges on a 60-rupee ($1.30), round-trip bus ticket. Wearing a sari and red bindi on her forehead, Ujwala takes the bus past the open fields growing cotton, soya beans and lentils; the baby goats grazing on the side of the road; the old men with deeply engraved wrinkles driving oxcarts; and the bright blue tents housing migrant workers who have traveled to central India to work in the fields. After 45 minutes, Ujwala reaches Shirasgaon village and her target: her 4-year-old daughter, Jagruti.

On Location: New Delhi — The gender gap

First roadblock to "Destination Peace"

Aman Ki Asha (The Hope for Peace) didn't exactly start off with a bang in India. The Times of India group, in partnership with Pakistan largest publication house, the Jang Group of Publications, ushered in the new year using their publications to jumpstart the latest in a long series of efforts to invert the Indo-Pak hate-hate relationship, into one of peace and comraderie.

Tussle over "racist" attacks in Australia

Top News: Diplomatic tension between India and Australia escalated over a series of recent attacks and killings of students of Indian origin in different Australian cities. The attacks are alleged to be racist in nature. The Indian government has issued travel guidance and asked students to consider the risks before going to Australia to pursue their studies.  

Fair trade in India

AMRAVATI, India — Rajendra Panja Kadu lives with his family in a small, humble home in a farming village in central India. He works three jobs — farming his two acres, milking his water buffalo and working as a laborer on others’ farms — but Kadu, like millions of other Indian farmers, can barely make ends meet.

The end of an era: Comrade Basu is dead

India's longest serving chief minister and a loyal Communist for most of his life, 95-year-old Comrade Jyoti Basu, succumbed to pneumonia on Sunday morning after suffering multiple organ failure. It the end of an era, and also perhaps the beginning of a new one for the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which has lost not only a leader but the matriarch of its domain. Will the CPM collapse now that Basu is no longer?

Oh oh! Where will all the tourists go?

Goa Dourada, or Golden Goa, is in trouble, or at least those who set themselves here for half the year, every year, are in trouble. New security regualtions mean that visitors from overseas with three-month tourist visas will have to leave India and wait two months before they can apply for a new visa and re-enter the country. 

Police shut down Mr. Gay China competition in Beijing

BEIJING, China — It was no match: eight stocky policemen against eight young gay men. The eight contestants for Mr. Gay China did not stand a chance. The officers — whom one organizer described as “definitely not cute” — stomped into Beijing’s upscale LAN club Friday night to tell Ben Zhang, the man behind China’s first ever national gay beauty pageant, that the show could not go on.

Bollywood has a new king

BANGALORE, India — Amir Khan traverses India incognito, leaving fans gasping after the most unusual of encounters. The Bollywood star is creating a titanic buzz around his latest film, "3 Idiots," which has just become Bollywood’s highest grossing movie ever.

One man's trash

"They don't belong here," says Sultana pointing to three children digging through a mound of wet trash for small bits of paper or plastic. Her own two children, a ten-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy, go to school, and will never come here, ever, she says. "When they want to know where mummy and daddy work we tell them what we do, but we don't bring them here to see it.”
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